Guam § 1907 - Public Auditor and Staff, Compensation of.

§ 1907. Public Auditor and Staff, Compensation of.

(a) The annual compensation of the Public Auditor shall be One Hundred Thousand Dollars

($100,000) and shall not be diminished during the Public Auditor’s term of office.

(b) Subject to the availability of funds, the Public Auditor may appoint a Deputy and an Executive

Secretary in the unclassified service, and such persons shall serve at the pleasure of the Public Auditor in

accordance with Title 4 GCA, Chapter 4, Article 1, § 4102(a)(4) and (5). The Deputy shall be compensated

as provided by Title 4 GCA, Chapter 6, Article 2, § 6206.1.

(c) Administration of General Personnel Matters. The Office of Public Accountability shall be

responsible for the conduct of operational matters addressing its personnel activities, in accordance with

and consistent with the provisions contained herein.

(d) Persons who are employed by the Office of Public Accountability, but who are not within the ranks

of the professional staff, shall be compensated in accordance with the Government of Guam Competitive

Wage Act of 2014. Persons who are employed by the Office of Public Accountability and are within the

ranks of the professional staff shall be compensated in accordance with the Position Paper – OPA Current

Positions and Wage Structure: Competitive Analysis and Research Report with Findings and

Recommended Reviews of 2014, conducted by Leading Edge Consulting Group (see APPENDIX A [of

P.L. 36-107]), until such time when a new wage structure is established, adopted, and implemented,

pursuant to 4 GCA § 6235(d)(6).

(e) Administration of Personnel.

(1) The Public Auditor is authorized to hire and appoint such personnel, and to fix their duties

and responsibilities under and in accordance with Title 4, Guam Code Annotated, as may be necessary

for the purposes of this Chapter.

(2) Subject to the availability of funds, the Public Auditor is also authorized to procure, in

accordance with Guam’s procurement laws and regulations, a private contractor to perform the human

resource operations for the Office of Public Accountability or enter into a memorandum of

understanding or memorandum of agreement with another agency, public corporation, or

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instrumentality of the government of Guam to perform such operations for the Office of Public

Accountability.

(f) Regulations. Consistent with the provisions of § 4105 of Title 4, Guam Code Annotated, the Public

Auditor may establish rules and regulations governing selection, promotion, performance evaluation,

demotion, suspension, and other disciplinary action for the employees of the Office of Public

Accountability. Until such time as the Office of Public Accountability adopts its own rules and regulations

as provided herein, the rules and regulations adopted by the Department of Administration shall continue

to apply to the Office of Public Accountability.

(g) Contributions to the Government of Guam Retirement Fund and Workers’ Compensation Fund.

(1) Employees of the Office of Public Accountability shall continue to be members of the

Government of Guam Retirement Fund, subject to the provisions of § 8105 of Title 4 GCA.

(2) The Office of Public Accountability shall contribute to the Government of Guam Retirement

Fund on the basis of annual billings, as determined by I Liheslaturan Guåhan or the Government of

Guam Retirement Fund, for the government share of the cost of the retirement benefits applicable to

the Office of Public Accountability employees, and their beneficiaries.

(3) The Office of Public Accountability shall also contribute to the Workers’ Compensation Fund,

on the basis of annual billings as determined by the Workers’ Compensation Commissioner, for the

benefit payments made from the Workers’ Compensation Fund on account of the Office of Public

Accountability employees.

(h) Post Audit. Persons appointed and employed by the Office of Public Accountability in the

classified service shall be subject to post-audit review by the Civil Service Commission, and such review

shall be discretionary.